Word: shoveler
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Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers...
...People are liberal now in this country," Straight says. "But they don't always know what they're liberal about. We want to develop a political program for liberals, stop handing out the line with a shovel, and start using a fork...
...Wyatt order places the building industry under stricter supervision than it had in wartime. It means considerable hardship for contractors who are not experienced at handling small jobs, and for steam-shovel operators, steelworkers and other workmen who cannot readily convert to housebuilding...
...years ago Roy Thomas Hollis was in a Georgia chain gang. He had twice been convicted of robbery. He sweated with pick & shovel "muscle crews" in tough camps, wore double chains, was lashed by a vicious warden. It was two years before he was classified as a trusty and unshackled...
...Small Copper Box. Snow and his brother, Donald, headed for the island last week with a shovel and an electronics device like a mine detector, used in locating metals. Five times they dug down, found buried hulks. Their sixth excavation hit the jackpot: a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France and Spain...